population
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Late Latin populatio (“a people, multitude”), as if a noun of action from Classical Latin populus.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
population (plural populations)
- The people living within a political or geographical boundary
- The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!
- A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
- The town’s population is only 243.
- population explosion
- population growth
- (biology) A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area
- A seasonal migration annually changes the populations in two or more biotopes drastically, many twice in opposite senses
- (statistics) A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn
- 1883, Francis Galton et al., Final Report of the Anthropometric Committee, Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 269.
- ...it is possible it [the Anglo-Saxon race] might stand second to the Scandinavian countries [in average height] if a fair sample of their population were obtained.
- 1883, Francis Galton et al., Final Report of the Anthropometric Committee, Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 269.
- (computing) The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.
- John clicked the Search button and waited for the population of the list to complete.
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Translations [edit]
all people living within a political or geographical boundary
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biology: collection of organisms
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number of residents in a given area
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statistics: greater group of units from which a sample can be drawn
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French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Borrowed from Late Latin populatio, populationis, from Latin populus.
Pronunciation [edit]
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Noun [edit]
population f (plural populations)
